It is both sides. First, there is the drudgery of getting up for field circus every day, or having a tedious job and then having to do field circus on the weekends. Boasting sessions take a lot of time. Often, people are getting by on less sleep than optimum all the time because they have to get up early after a boasting session or work evenings and then attend a boasting session. The big sessions waste even more time. And that's just the regular publishers. Pious-sneering only makes it worse, since you are wasting time under pressure that you need to "get your time in" in order to get the privilege of sneering about it.
On the other side, it is about what you can't do. You enjoy little. Most music is censored. You can't play video games. For instance, the Mario Brothers games feature scenes where your character does things you can't in real life, plus the use of potions and power-up items. Luigi's Mansion is a haunted house theme, and the hounders will have your hide for that. Starfox and Kid Icarus both feather shooting planes (no gore, just fireballs when you hit something). Pokemon features psychic moves and use of potions, which is taboo. Even a game like Animal Crossing, with no violence or magic, poses you as a mayor of a town in the game. And these are all rated E or E-10!
And outings are all but gone. All the fun that congregations used to do is gone for isolated incidents where someone had too much alcohol, or the weed came out, and the fornication began (probably staged). You take a Saturday morning off to go camping, you are guilted. Obviously, they don't have decorative lighting (too Christmas-y) or participate in parties of that kind. Instead, it is endless work, field circus, and boasting sessions.
